Friday, 19 April 2013

Opting Out and Paying the Price of Being Awake

Opting Out and Paying the Price of Being Awake

by Alex
Pietrowski

At the very core of a
revolution lies the radical transformation of the individual, which is ear-marked by the
dissolution of fear of the consequences for speaking and acting in accordance
with good conscience.

More people are starting
to awaken to the realities of our world – the good: human energies, medicinal
properties of plants, the power of meditation, universal consciousness – the
bad: the assault on natural health, genetically-modified
foods, chemtrails, electromagnetic pollution – and the ugly: toxic
disasters, deforestation, corruption, greed, endless war, cancer.

With this awakening comes
greater awareness of the role that an individual’s acquiescence to intrusions
on personal liberty plays in supporting the system. The awakening process
naturally compels one into developing the courage to risk inconveniences like
expulsion, humiliation, arrest, fines and jail-time, or worse, in order to live
in a accordance with principle and common sense. Courageous non-compliance to
ridiculous government edicts and rules, as well as to the opinions of others,
is the highest form of protest, but often carries penalties, both social and
legal.

So, what price are some
paying for being ‘awake?’

Expulsion and
Loss of Opportunity

Implementation of
location tracking radio-frequency ID (RFID) technology has been underway for many years
now, with governments putting RFID chips into passports, vehicle registration
stickers and license
plates, medical institutions using these chips on infants and Alzheimer’s
patients, and corporations using RFID
to track employees and inventory. Often the reasons given for the
implementation of this technology are security and increased efficiency. Yet,
many are justifiably concerned that RFID can and is already being used to
compromise our civil liberties and invade personal privacy.

“With tags in so many
objects, relaying information to databases that can be linked to credit and
bank cards, almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of
corporations and governments”. - Mark Rasch, former head of the computer-crime unit of
the U.S. Justice Department (Seattle
Times)

Schools, such as
Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio, Texas, are
starting to use RFID-equipped ID badges to stay aware of students’ locations
while they are on campus in an effort to reduce truancy and tardiness. Yet,
students are standing up for their right to privacy. Andrea Hernandez,
sophomore at NISD’s John Jay High School, is a great example; she has refused
to wear the RFID badge.

“What we’re teaching
kids is that they live in a total surveillance state and if they do not comply,
they will be punished. There has to be a point at which schools have to show
valid reasons why they’re doing this.” – John Whitehead, civil liberties lawyer and founder of
the Rutherford Institute (ZDnet.com)

Andrea Hernandez is being
expelled from John Jay HS and her program at the Science and Engineering
Academy. Her father, Steven Hernandez, objects to his daughter wearing the
tracking device, citing Biblical concerns. He compares the RFID cards to the “mark of the beast”
in the Book of Revelation.

Publicly criticizing the
school in this way has prompted school officials to offer immunity to his
daughter if Mr. Hernandez would in turn hush up and stop encouraging others to
stand up to this Orwellian policy. They offered to remove the chip from
Andrea’s card in exchange for the family to end its criticism of the “Student
Locator Program.”

“[A]s part of the
accommodation my daughter and I would have to agree to stop criticizing the
program and publicly support … it. I told [the Deputy Superintendent] that was
unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district’s policy and
my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak
out against a program that we feel is wrong.” – Steven Hernandez (InfoWars.com)

In this case, a bright
young high school kid is risking being expelled from school, the bravery and
astuteness of Andrea Hernandez and her family has inspired many others in her
school district to speak out – 300
more students now refuse to wear the RFID badges and about 700 more have
signed a petition opposing the use of RFID-equipped badges, giving reasons such
as religious beliefs and concerns about civil liberties and personal privacy.

Unjust
Criminal Punishment and Public Humiliation

There is a growing
concern among the American public about the use of increasingly invasive and potentially
harmful body scanners at airports, and the lack of unbiased third-party testing
on the potential dangers of using these scanners. This is doubled by the
growing abuses conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),
which was created to oversee airport security in the US after 9-11.

We are writing to
call your attention to serious concerns about the potential health risks of the
recently adopted whole body backscatter X-ray airport security scanners. This
is an urgent situation as these X-ray scanners are rapidly being implemented as
a primary screening step for all air travel passengers. Our overriding concern
is the extent to which the safety of this scanning device has been adequately
demonstrated. -
Doctors John Sedat Ph.D., David Agard, Ph.D., Marc Shuman, M.D., Robert Stroud,
Ph.D., all of whom are faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (Natural
News)

Created in the wake
of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the TSA was charged with providing effective and
efficient security for passenger and freight transportation in the United
States. It has since become one of the Department of Homeland Security’s most
visible and costly means of clamping down on Americans domestically, boasting
an $8 billion annual budget and a roster of employees that includes TSOs (or
airport screeners).
– Canada Free Press

Worries about harmful
radiation, virtual strip searches, inappropriate “pat downs” and molestations,
theft of personal items, and the verbal abuse of the traveling public, are
resulting in regular citizens speaking up for their rights.

TSA claims you have the
right to refuse scans, however, it has become clear that opting out exposes one
to more ‘invasive’ treatment, which, in some cases, leads to delayed travel,
embarrassment, charged emotions and anger, or even arrest and prosecution.

This is what happened to
Andrea Fornella Abbott, who recently was found
guilty of disorderly conduct and sentenced to one year of probation
for standing up for her 14-year old daughter’s rights and not allowing TSA
screeners to ‘pat-down’ or touch the child.

The common sensical act
of not permitting strangers to put their hands on the private parts of her
teenage daughter comes with a price tag, however, it also lights the way for
others who’s intuition is already telling them that we are in grave danger of
become a new breed of highly obedient slaves.

Just like Andrea, many
travelers have already paid the price for being awake and standing up for their
rights and beliefs. As the world transforms around us and we enter the age of
enlightenment, many more students, employees, drivers and regular citizens will
jeopardize their comfort and convenience, be publically humiliated, or disrupt
their daily lives in order to spark a revolution. Movements, such as TSA
opt-out week taking place during this Thanksgiving week, will give more individuals
the confidence to stand up to tyranny, despite threats of retaliation by TSA, and pursue life with renewed
awareness of the power of the individual, at whatever cost.

There is no single grand
act that can bring about a revolution, only a thousand daily unsung acts of
individual courage can do that.

What price are you paying
for being ‘awake’ during the waking times?’

About the Author

Alex Pietrowski is an
artist and writer concerned with preserving good health and the basic freedom
to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com, and an
avid student of Yoga and life.

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